But woodpecker is this not perhaps a bitter sweet irony, when one remembers it was a renound farrier from ahbut'Derby who, when asketh'd why he was agin traversing the mighty voids - in which there be dragons - upon nothing less that a beast with four legs, was quoteth as saying "' 'tis a shame that the beasts could not be bred with more than four legs by which to sturdily power it ! "
See also:
The Caravan and
The Café Scrolls )